George Seawright

George Seawright (1951-3 December 1987) was a Belfast City Councillor from Belfast North from 1981 to 1987 as a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). He was assassinated by the IPLO in 1987.

Biography
George Seawright was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1951, and he was a shipyard worker before joining the Ulster Protestant volunteers in the late 1960s during The Troubles. He became a member of the conservative Democratic Unionist Party, and he became known for his fiery unionist rhetoric. In 1981, he was elected to the Belfast City Council, and he praised fascist political parties in Britain such as the UK National Front, of which his brother was a member. In 1984, he said that Irish Catholics who objected to singing the British national anthem were "fenian scum" and that taxpayers' money would be better spent on incinerators so that the dissidents and their priests could be thrown into them and burnt. The DUP attempted to sever its ties with Seawright, and Seawright became an extremist and a paramilitary supporter. In 1987, he was defeated in the City Council elections, and he attempted to regain his seat. On 19 November 1987, Seawright was shot by IPLO gunmen while he waited in a car next to a taxi company, where he had intended to work; he died of his wounds on 3 December 1987. It was rumored that he had attempted to save his own skin by giving the IPLO low-level information after the Royal Ulster Constabulary informed him that he was on an IPLO hit list.